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.... No, it did not vote for the economic penury, falling wages, lower living standards, spiralling sterling devaluation and slacker food safety, health and environmental protections that a full-blown rupture with the single market and customs union would surely bring. It did not vote for unequal trade deals with economic superpowers such as China and the US that, if they happen at all, will be the consequence of a weakened Britain going it alone. ...
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.... No, it did not vote for the economic penury, falling wages, lower living standards, spiralling sterling devaluation and slacker food safety, health and environmental protections that a full-blown rupture with the single market and customs union would surely bring. It did not vote for unequal trade deals with economic superpowers such as China and the US that, if they happen at all, will be the consequence of a weakened Britain going it alone. ...

....For those of us who can’t help looking at those events without turning lines from WB Yeats’s The Second Coming over in our heads (“what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”), Klein’s new book – which examines in detail both the phenomenon of Trump and how liberal and progressive forces might counter his reality – is a brilliant articulation of restless anxiety. Speaking at her home in Toronto last week, Klein suggested to me that Trump’s novelty was to take the shock doctrine and make it a personal superpower. ...

.... Whatever the nomenclature, the basic idea was the same: the US creed of free markets and free trade would lead not just to better economic performance but to the spread of the values that underpinned western capitalism. The US remains an economic and military superpower, but it was the Chinese and not the American economy that hauled the world out of recession in 2008-09. ...

.... They have been less effective, however, in nurturing long-term economic growth. Once one of the world’s two superpowers, Russia’s GDP is now about 40% of Germany’s and just over 50% of France’s. ...

.... “If anyone were to say China is playing a leadership role in the world, I would say it’s not China rushing to the front but rather the frontrunners have stepped back, leaving the place to China,” Zhang Jun, a senior foreign ministry official, told reporters in Beijing. One day after his triumphant outing in Davos, Xi used a speech in Geneva to pitch his country – the world’s largest polluter – as a green superpower, and attack Trump’s threats to abandon the Paris climate change deal. ...

. China’s economy slowed further last year to expand at its weakest pace for quarter of a century, with warnings that it risks losing further momentum in 2017 as Donald Trump’s presidency creates new challenges for the trading superpower. ...

.... Everyone thought the web, in particular, would remain more competitive. Yet, as Lenin put it, quantity has a quality all of its own and the last 10 years have seen the emergence of a class of superpowers driven by old-school scale economics – especially Facebook, Google and Amazon – who have gained control over their respective domains and seem unlikely to be dislodged soon. ...

....PPTV is owned by Chinese retailer Suning, which is already invested in European football after it bought a controlling stake in Italian club Inter Milan in June. China's President Xi Jinping has led a drive for businesses to invest more in football in a bid to turn the country into a footballing superpower. ...

....We know the person he endorses as “right on” about China, university professor Peter Navarro, sees war with the People’s Republic as “very likely”, argues that “Bill Clinton sold America down the Shanghai River”, and urges the US to fight China’s mercantilism by being tough on trade and taxing China’s exports. But President Trump would be well advised to steer away from the rhetoric of Candidate Trump in dealing with the world’s second biggest economy and the rising superpower, accepting the all-important nuances of the world’s single most important relationship. ...

....Nearly 10 million people are entering India's job market every year and nearly half of those are women. Without that support - which includes men taking up more responsibilities at home - it's unlikely that India will realise its ambition of becoming an economic superpower. ...

....Football in China is enjoying a boom as investors not only snap up overseas clubs but also lure big name players and coaches to the nation's Super League. Its government wants to see China become a footballing superpower, and that means that as well as big stars, the nation is also hungry to acquire knowledge and expertise from overseas. ...

....Mrs Clinton said her economic plan would create 10 million new jobs. She promised to improve schools and water systems, expand broadband access to millions of children, and make America a "clean energy superpower". ...

....The hard Left pour scorn on the claim (one that is never made, incidentally, by the Left’s opponents) that Britain remains an imperial power, a super power still dreaming of the days when it could command continents. What irks them beyond measure is the unhappy awareness that, superpower or not, the UK is a significant military force, a player on the world stage. ...

.... Three months later, on October 30, Britain and France, in secret collusion with Israel, invaded Egypt to restore international control of the canal and remove Nasser. The invasion, opposed by the United States and Soviet Russia, two superpowers in unusual agreement, was an ignominious failure and was halted after just six days. ...

....And last month Chinese businessman Dr Tony Xia completed his £76m takeover of Championship club Aston Villa. Football is a popular sport in China and the government has pledged to develop its local industry to become a world "superpower. ...

.... And so the way forward for Britain – and every other nation – lies in balancing the national autonomy we desire with the continental cooperation we require. This should lead us to reject the two absolutes that continue to confuse rather than illuminate the debate: a European superstate, which would undermine national identities; and a return to a 19th-century view of sovereignty, when even the world’s largest superpower recognised that sovereignty had to be shared. ...

.... And so the way forward for Britain – and every other nation – lies in balancing the national autonomy we desire with the continental cooperation we require. This should lead us to reject the two absolutes that continue to confuse rather than illuminate the debate: a European superstate, which would undermine national identities; and a return to a 19th-century view of sovereignty, when even the world’s largest superpower recognised that sovereignty had to be shared. ...

....Rockefeller Foundation. The region where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea has seen some of the most rapid urban expansion in human history over the past few decades – transforming what was mostly agricultural land in 1979 into what is the manufacturing heartland of a global economic superpower today. ...

....Rockefeller Foundation. The region where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea has seen some of the most rapid urban expansion in human history over the past few decades – transforming what was mostly agricultural land in 1979 into what is the manufacturing heartland of a global economic superpower today. ...

.... The German steel industry has not buckled under the pressure of dumping by China. So what’s the secret? How can high-cost, high-tax Germany thrive as an industrial superpower while Britain has seen the progressive hollowing-out of its manufacturing base?. ...

....Strategically Australia should be positioning itself to be at the forefront of these developments. Energy superpowers in a rapidly decarbonising world will be those that have access to vast, cheap, clean renewable energy, and Australia is already in the top three countries globally with access to renewable energy resources. ...

....Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said the deal was a first step in getting foreign investors to see the country as a "truly reliable and good place for making investments". "Ukraine is already one of the world's great agricultural producers, but it should be an agricultural superpower," said US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. ...

.... Fumbling over Ukraine and Crimea, effective diplomacy in dealing with Putin still eludes the 28 nations. America, with its grotesque Republican candidates, looks a less sane superpower ally just now. ...

.... The International Energy Agency is warning that oil markets could “drown in oversupply” this year. The US fracking revolution has meant the world’s superpower is no longer heavily reliant on Middle Eastern oil. ...

....The global glut meant that lifting the ban was not expected to lead to significant US exports for months or even years, but could give producers extra flexibility. George Baker, head of Producers for American Crude Oil Exports, said: "Now that we have levelled the playing field, the United States finally has an opportunity to compete and realise our nation's full potential as a global energy superpower. ...

.... . There is a new world order of three oil superpowers with roughly equal shares – Saudi Arabia, Russia and the US – and none of them is yet willing to cut output voluntarily to shore up prices. ...

....“It’s concerning that growth is still so heavily reliant on mining exports, because it leaves us exposed to changing prices and demand,” the Greens treasury spokesman, Adam Bandt, said. “The figures confirm we must redouble our efforts to grow the new economy, including by making Australia a renewable energy superpower. ...

.... . In the end, China’s plan for a superpower currency that can match the dollar entirely depends on the whether the Communist Party establishes the rule of law, competent supervision, consistency and global trust. ...

.... Rather, the belief in ideal outcomes is a necessary myth to cover an unwillingness to use force persistently and intelligently enough to achieve a desired result. However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power. ...

....Now the trading city, nicknamed the “door of the desert”, is the centre for another blockbuster – a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that, alongside hydro and wind, will help provide nearly half of Morocco’s electricity from renewables by 2020 with, it is hoped, some spare to export to Europe. The project is a key plank in Morocco’s ambitions to use its untapped deserts to become a global solar superpower. ...

.... This would be smaller than Holland ($850bn) or half the size of Texas ($1. 4 trillion), a remarkable state of affairs for a country vying for superpower military status in Europe and the Middle East. ...

.... It’s not our job to improve life in other countries – China may treat its own people terribly, but they’re no risk to us. ” Really? China is a superpower, aggressively spreading its influence. ...

. America’s era as the undisputed global economic superpower is at an end, and we could soon see big signs of the shift in global markets, according to economists at British bank Standard Chartered. ...

.... • The world's most powerful brands . Fast-growing superpower China, which has previously threatened to knock the US off the top spot, has instead been rocked by the recent stock market turbulence and slowing economic growth. ...

.... American pre-eminence has long carried with it loathing and admiration in equal measure. The continent’s superpower may be experiencing something similar, now that the Kissinger question – who do you call, if you want to call Europe? – has found its definitive answer in the chancellery in Berlin. ...

.... The weak defence from Synergy management at the hearing had led many investors to believe that the deal was broken. We believe the new sterilisation superpower in a world of outsourcing and strong procedure growth is poised for significant growth. ...

.... . Yet Britain’s approach seems to have gone way beyond the usual compromises and realpolitik of successful trade with other nations, into a kind of undignified love bombing that has scant regard for all legitimate points of complaint against this increasingly assertive superpower. ...

.... The weather in Beijing was quite good,” Ms Li said on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter. Ms Li’s case highlights the embryonic role that hedge funds play in China’s emerging investment landscape, and the tight rein the authorities in the economic superpower keep on entrants hoping to gain a stronger foothold in the market. ...

....The chaos came after Beijing officials attempted to make the yuan more market friendly after rapid rises hurt its export businesses and raised the threat of politically dangerous job losses. It follows the savaging of China's stock markets in recent weeks, amid fears of a slowdown in the emerging superpower's economy. ...

.... . These energy superpowers create the economic activity which sustains Dubai and its large service economic which rests on the industrial port of Jebel Ali and the emirate’s position as a transport hub. ...

.... . While global exposure to Chinese equities is small, some observers have expressed fears that the experience could knock policymakers’ confidence in the economic superpower’s programme of economic liberalisation. ...

.... In 2013, Steve Ballmer promised that Finland would become the "hub and the centre for our phone R&D". That at least seemed to promise that the team at what was - only a few years previously - Europe's technology superpower would stay intact, albeit under US ownership. ...

....Tuesday sees China release its manufacturing data for June, so keep an eye on how mining stocks respond. Signs that growth from the world’s fastest-growing superpower is on the wane will affect industrial metals stocks, while a robust PMI number will buoy the sector. ...

...."He envisioned a future where a “super” finance minister of the eurozone wielded unlimited power and the ability to reject budgets of sovereign states that are not aligned with its "extreme" ideals. Mr Tsipras said a non-elected EU superpower is already in the making and seeking to serve up Greece as its "first victim", in order to make an example to other countries who consider not following the discipline of eurozone masters. ...

.... This is surely just the beginning. The world's scientific superpower is now throwing itself into the fight with gusto, conducting over 220 research projects into various forms of battery storage. ...

.... The kingdom, which enjoys some of the lowest production costs in the world, has the capacity to pump 12m bpd if required and shows no signs of slowing down. However, the big question remains whether the Middle East’s energy superpower along with the world’s other major oil producers will be able to keep up with the expected increases in demand over the next 25 years? . ...

.... Financed in part by contributions from each of the 87 founding members, many of them influential Chinese entrepreneurs, SEE has helped to fund a number of autonomous groups across China, including Ma’s IPEA. Related: Russia: the unsustainable superpower. ...

. It’s been a world superpower for most of the past century, but Russia still faces enormous sustainable development challenges – challenges that are compounded by economic sanctions that are sending its economy into recession territory. ...

.... . A vault forward on this scale would establish the US as the leading energy superpower in both oil and gas, a revival that almost nobody could have imagined seven years ago when the United States was in near panic over its exorbitant dependency of imported fuel. ...

.... . One starts to glimpse the extraordinary possibility that the US oil industry could be the last one standing in a long and bitter price war for global market share, or may at least emerge as an energy superpower with greater political staying-power than Opec. ...